{"id":25108,"date":"2026-11-01T01:11:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T05:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eastwestliteraryforum.com\/rus\/?post_type=translations&#038;p=25108"},"modified":"2026-11-01T01:02:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T06:02:41","slug":"gali-dana-singer-cassandra-translated-by-maria-bloshteyn","status":"publish","type":"translations","link":"https:\/\/eastwestliteraryforum.com\/rus\/translations\/gali-dana-singer-cassandra-translated-by-maria-bloshteyn\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0413\u0430\u043b\u0438\u2013\u0414\u0430\u043d\u0430 \u0417\u0438\u043d\u0433\u0435\u0440. \u041a\u0430\u0441\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0434\u0440\u0430. \u041f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0432\u043e\u0434 \u043d\u0430 \u0430\u043d\u0433\u043b\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a \u041c\u0430\u0440\u0438\u0438 \u0411\u043b\u043e\u0448\u0442\u0435\u0439\u043d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1<\/p>\n<p>\u041f\u0440\u0438\u0448\u043b\u043e 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\u044f\u0441\u043d\u043e.<\/p>\n<p>\u0410 \u0432\u0435\u0434\u044c \u043c\u043d\u0435, \u2013 \u043f\u043e\u043d\u0438\u043c\u0430\u0435\u0442 \u041a\u0430\u0441\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0434\u0440\u0430, \u2013 \u043f\u043e-\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0436\u043d\u0435\u043c\u0443 \u043d\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0438\u0442\u0441\u044f<\/p>\n<p>\u043f\u043e\u0434\u0436\u0438\u0434\u0430\u0442\u044c \u043d\u0435\u043e\u0436\u0438\u0434\u0430\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0435,<\/p>\n<p>\u043d\u0430\u0434\u0435\u044f\u0442\u044c\u0441\u044f \u043d\u0430 \u0431\u0435\u0437\u043d\u0430\u0434\u0435\u0436\u043d\u043e\u0435.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1 \u0438\u044e\u043b\u044f 2026 \u0433\u043e\u0434\u0430<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n2<\/p>\n<p>\u0412\u043e\u0442 \u0438 \u044d\u0442\u0430 \u041a\u0430\u0441\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0434\u0440\u0430 \u043d\u0430\u0443\u0447\u0438\u043b\u0430\u0441\u044c \u043c\u043e\u043b\u0447\u0430\u0442\u044c.<\/p>\n<p>\u041d\u0435 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\u0434\u0440\u0443\u0433\u0435 \u043d\u0435 \u0437\u043d\u0430\u044f.<\/p>\n<p>\u041d\u043e \u0435\u0439 \u0432\u0435\u0434\u043e\u043c\u043e, \u043a\u0430\u043a \u043f\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0443\u043f\u0430\u0442\u044c<\/p>\n<p>\u0441\u043e \u043c\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u0438 \u0441\u0430\u043c\u043e\u0439.<\/p>\n<p>\u042f \u043c\u043e\u043b\u0447\u0443.<\/p>\n<p>\u041d\u043e \u0435\u0441\u0442\u044c \u0438 \u0434\u0440\u0443\u0433\u0438\u0435 \u041a\u0430\u0441\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0434\u0440\u044b.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;30 \u0438\u044e\u043d\u044f 2026 \u0433\u043e\u0434\u0430 <\/p>\n<p>==========================================================<\/p>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<p>Now came an inkling of that moment when everything was zeroed out<\/p>\n<p>(thinks Apollo\u2019s she-hound)<\/p>\n<p>the earth\u2019s heart hit the brakes:<\/p>\n<p>a moonsize lump of iron and nickel<\/p>\n<p>three thousand miles deep or even deeper,<\/p>\n<p>surrounded by a molten mantle,<\/p>\n<p>slowed down and backtracked.<\/p>\n<p>And there you go: pease comes to the woodusk,<\/p>\n<p>green birds hang motionless in the air,<\/p>\n<p>returning poets as trees,<\/p>\n<p>trees as poets,<\/p>\n<p>foxes and wolves as wolves and foxes.<\/p>\n<p>Are explanations really needed?<\/p>\n<p>The messenger birds<\/p>\n<p>Observation, Intuition, Logic,<\/p>\n<p>once served faithfully,<\/p>\n<p>but now flatly refuse to work\u2014<\/p>\n<p>they\u2019re not interested, you see.<\/p>\n<p>I see.  And that, perhaps, is the last thing<\/p>\n<p>I still see.<\/p>\n<p>Brain fog<\/p>\n<p>(so it says on Apollo Hospitals page) is not a medical condition but constitutes a group of symptoms where a person faces difficulty in thinking, has the inability to concentrate on a single thought, is unable to create a proper sentence from their thoughts, and thinking straight.&#187;<\/p>\n<p>And yet I still like (understands Cassandra)<\/p>\n<p>to expect the unexpected<\/p>\n<p>to hope for the hopeless.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;July 1, 2026<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n2<\/p>\n<p>And so this Cassandra, too, has learned to keep silent.<\/p>\n<p>Not from fear of mockery. <\/p>\n<p>Not from trembling before the future.<\/p>\n<p>But from horror before words.<\/p>\n<p>There are too few letters\u2014<\/p>\n<p>thinks asteroid #114\u2014<\/p>\n<p>and the future will future anyway.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what kind.<\/p>\n<p>Some kind.<\/p>\n<p>So long as I don\u2019t blurt out<\/p>\n<p>something stupid by accident.<\/p>\n<p>We are in wasland\u2014<\/p>\n<p>I read everagain by rote<\/p>\n<p>and draw conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been sent unknownews,<\/p>\n<p>but what am I to do with it?<\/p>\n<p>It and I know each other since beforetime<\/p>\n<p>without knowing anything about each other.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it divines how to deal<\/p>\n<p>with me and with itself.<\/p>\n<p>I am silent.<\/p>\n<p>But there are other Cassandras.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;June 30, 2026<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25110,"parent":0,"template":"","translations-type":[],"class_list":["post-25108","translations","type-translations","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwestliteraryforum.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/translations\/25108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwestliteraryforum.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/translations"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwestliteraryforum.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/translations"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastwestliteraryforum.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/translations\/25108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25112,"href":"https:\/\/eastwestliteraryforum.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/translations\/25108\/revisions\/25112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwestliteraryforum.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwestliteraryforum.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"translations-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwestliteraryforum.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/translations-type?post=25108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}